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The US has apologised to China for mistakenly describing President Xi Jinping as the leader of Taiwan in a statement issued by Washington, a top Chinese official said today.Reacting strongly to the statement issued by the US after Xi and President Donald Trump met in Germany on the sidelines of...
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Terming the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims in Kashmir as the most reprehensible act, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said the incident should add to India's determination to eliminate terrorism. The defence minister also conveyed his condolences to the families of those killed in the attack in...
23:17
After the terror attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party for 'deteriorating' situation in Kashmir.The situation in Kashmir has deteriorated under the BJP govt's watch. Their mishandling of the...
22:59
Condemning the attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India will never get bogged down by such cowardly attacks. India will never get bogged down by such cowardly attacks and the evil designs of hate, Modi tweeted.Pained beyond words on the dastardly attack...
22:50
Troops of 90 battalion and 40 battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force have rushed to Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir after terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from Gujarat. Seven pilgrims died in the attack and 12 were injured....
22:34
A fire broke out in industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Antilia building, one of the most expensive residential properties in the world, tonight, police and civic officials said. The blaze started on the 6th floor of the 27-storey building owned by the Ambanis on Altamount Road at around 9:10 pm,...
22:27
Former Jammu and Kashmir minister Omar Abdullah condemned the attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims.@abdullah_omar Very sad news. The attack cannot be condemned strongly enough. My sympathies to the families & prayers for the injured.
22:10
Amid a string of attacks on members of the minority community allegedly by cow vigilantes, a Muslim man in Gujarat has announced to sit on a 48-hour fast from July 20 to spread the message of cow protection andcommunal harmony.Twenty-seven-year-old Jabar Jat, a cattle rearer from Ludbaay village...
21:32
Six Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were killed and 12 injured when terrorists opened fire on a bus they were travelling on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.The terrorists also fired at a police party in Bantigoo area in the district.Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah...
21:29
New Delhi Congress circles are agog with speculation that by the middle of September, the V Narayanasamy government in Puducherry will be tottering on the brink of collapse. The government may have to go on the Office of Profit issue with nine Congress MLAs under the scanner. All India...
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Terrorists on Monday attacked a police party in Bantigoo area of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag. More details are awaited.Earlier in the day, two terrorists were gunned down in the Nowgam Sector following search operation undertaken by the army in the Handwara area of Kupwara district of Jammu...
20:48
Union minister Venkaiah Naidu today outrightly rejected the Jammu and Kashmir human rights panel's directive for providing Rs 10 lakh compensation to Farooq Ahmad Dar, who was used as a human shield by the armyduring a by-poll in the state.There is no question of giving compensation to stone...
20:24
Nearly 6,000 NGOs could lose their licence to receive foreign donations with the home ministry serving them show cause notices for not filing annual income and expenditure records for five consecutive years, an official said on Monday.The show cause notices were issued on July 8 and the NGOs have...
19:36
United States President Donald Trump today renewed his attack on sacked FBI chief James Comey, saying he leaked classified information to the media which is illegal. Trump's allegations came as a television network friendly to his administration said that the material that Comey leaked to a...
19:03
The Gujarat high court today decided to hear a plea seeking direction to the Election Commission to stop political parties from issuing manifestos and to hold them liable for making unkept pre-poll promises.A bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi admitted the plea for...
18:50
JUST IN: World No. 1 Angelique Kerber crashes out of Wimbledon as Garbie Muguruza beat her 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Muguruza, the 2015 finalist, will play Svetlana Kuznetsova next in the quarterfinals. Kerber was a runner-up at Wimbledon last year, a season in which she...
18:27
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today admitted that he met with a Chinese envoy and lashed out at the Narendra Modi government. It is my job to be informed on critical issues. I met the Chinese Ambassador, Ex-NSA, Congress leaders from NE & the Bhutanese Ambassador,'...
18:04
The head coach of the Indian cricket team was scheduled to be chosen today but Sourav Ganguly, Cricket Advisory Committee member, said they need to speak to the people who matter, especially Virat Kohli, before making the final decision. We will hold on for a few days on...
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The Jammu and Kashmir human rights commission on Monday directed the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to Farooq Ahmad Dar, who was used as a human shield by the army during the Srinagar Lok Sabha bypoll.The compensation awarded to Dar was for the humiliation, physical and...
16:29
China today refused to acknowledge the interaction between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping on the side-lines of the G-20 summit at Hamburg last week, insisting that no bilateral meeting tookplace between the two leaders.India too has not described the interaction, which...
16:14
JUST IN: State human rights commission directs Jammu-Kashmir to provide 10 lakh as compensation' to civilian allegedly used as human shield by army
16:07
Amidst concern raised by China, navies of India, US and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force on Monday began Malabar naval exercise 2017, aimed at achieving deeper military ties between the three nations.It is the 21st edition of the Malabar exercise.HCS Bisht, flag officer commanding-in-chief,...
15:09
Shobhaa De @DeShobhaa My fan girl moment with Arundhati Roy.
15:08
Did Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi meet with Chinese envoy Luo Zhaohui on Saturday? Even as the Congress denied the meeting today, the Chinese embassy in Delhi first posted then removed a statement on its website saying that the two had indeed met, reports News18. The Congress called out...
14:11
India's ambassador to the US Navtej Sarna @NavtejSarna tweets, Deeply saddened; he was my Ambassador 98-01; a gigantic intellect. Gandhi statue on Mass Ave, today a landmark, was his personal mission.Sarna was condoling the demise of former Ambassador to the US Naresh Chandra Ambassador...
13:59
Backing its ally, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Janata Dal (United) said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won't succeed in breaking the back of the united opposition.Asserting that Lalu Yadav is an integral part of the united opposition, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav told ANI, This tirade which...
13:54
Sebi today said it is closely monitoring the situation at the National Stock Exchange where trading was disrupted following technical issues. The exchange had stopped trading in cash as well as F&O (futures and options) segments while stock prices were also not getting updated. In a...
13:29
A 19-year-old college girl from Agra has written to chief minister Yogi Adityanath seeking protection from street molesters, saying she would otherwise leave Uttar Pradesh with her family for good. The goons are all school dropouts; they resent my going to college, the first-year BCom...
13:24
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from social activist Teesta Setalvad for relief from charges of corruption and misappropriation of funds meant for rehabilitation of Gujarat riot victims.No relief has been given by the court to Teesta in the grave digging matter in which she is...
13:14
Veena Venugopal @veenavenugopal Air India is unable to sort veg and non-veg boxes accurately. But is to be trusted to fly people.
12:53
Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is depicting his corruption cases as his struggle for freedom.This issue is connected with corruption and not with any freedom struggle. Lalu Yadav...
12:46
In a cost-cutting move, loss-laden Air India has stopped serving non vegetarian meals to economy class passengers of its domestic flights. However, budget flyers on AI's international flights will continue getting non-veg food. We implemented this move about two weeks back. It is expected to save...
12:43
NDTV: Trading resumes on NSE, Nifty up 62 points at 9,727
12:41
Investors today continued to face problems in executing trades at the National Stock Exchange due to glitches, including in the F&O segment. An NSE spokesperson said normal trading in cash and F&O (futures and options) category will resume at 12:30 hours. Trading in the segment was...
12:35
The meeting of Rashtriya Janata Dal MLAs to decide whether party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's son, Tejashwi, should resign as Bihar deputy CM, ends. After the meeting the RJD spokesperson said that Lalu's son will not resign. We are with him. Lalu will bounce back. The RJD said that Bihar CM and...
12:12
A joint investigation team probing the Panamagate graft case against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family will today submit its final report to the Supreme Court. The six-member Joint Investigation Team was set up in May by the Supreme Court with the mandate to probe the Sharif family...
11:59
Two terrorists were gunned down in the Nowgam Sector on Monday following search operation undertaken by the army in the Handwara area of Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.Sources said the army opened fire after noticing suspicious movement in the area.On Sunday, the Pakistan Army initiated...
11:41
A suspected militant named Sandeep Kumar Sharma was apprehended from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, said Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday. Muneer Khan, IG, J&K Police, said Kumar had expertise in looting ATMs. Sharma is a resident of Uttar Pradesh.The IG told ANI, He (Sandeep) was a...
11:26
Ahead of the ongoing political turmoil in the state with the demands for the resignation by Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav building up, the Rashtriya Janata Dal is to hold a meeting on Monday.The BJP on Sunday urged the RJD and Janata Dal (United) to muster up courage and compel Bihar...
11:20
An Alaskan volcano, which has erupted several time since last year, has again erupted leading to an aviation warning.The Bogoslof volcano, which erupted on Saturday, emitted an ash cloud upto 30,000 feet, reports the CNN.The volcano comes under the path of several flights from Asia to North...
11:15
Cash and futures and options (F&O) trading to resume by 11:15 hours: NSE to PTI.
11:02
In tweets this morning, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tore into her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz for not showing the courtesy to acknowledge her letter on a visa for the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian sentenced to death in Pakistan.Swaraj tweeted that she wrote a personal...
10:49
As the border standoff between India and China continues, many schools in Mumbai plan to tell students to boycott Chinese-made school stationery and other products. The Mumbai Principals Association, which represents schools following the state board curriculum, in its recent executive...
10:46
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked devotees participating in the kanwar yatra not to play vulgar movie songs and appealed to people to refrain from gambling on Diwali.Those participating in the annual pilgrimage should not show-off, he said.Kanwar yatra is about to begin. Playing...
10:38
The National Stock Exchange was hit by a technical snag early on Monday, and shut down trading in the cash, and futures and options segments. Dealers too reported deals not going through and that the share prices were not being updated.
10:31
JUST IN: Two terrorists killed as security forces foil infiltration attempt in Jammu-Kashmir's Nowgam district.
10:00
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has strong views on economics. Speaking to a big crowd of tycoons, investors and journalists in New Delhi, Mr Modi once admitted that he is not a big economist. Yet he promptly set out an economic vision for India to be a global manufacturing power. Investors...
09:42
The Sensex opened at a record high on Monday as it hit 31,595.46 points on Monday. The Nifty, too, set a new record by hitting 9,765.90 points in early hours. The last time the Sensex breached the 30,000 mark was on April 26 2017 when it reached the 30,133.35 mark.
09:15
In yet another upheaval caused due to a social media post, clashes between two groups took place in Garhwal district's Satpuli town.Tension gripped the town when a minor boy allegedly posted an 'offensive' picture of the Kedarnath shrine on Facebook.Seeing the sensitivity, the Senior...
08:41
Nitish Kumar has given the Opposition a new case of the jitters by deciding not to attend a meeting of 17 parties on Tuesday in Delhi. Allowing himself an alibi, the chief minister of Bihar has instead called all his party leaders including national and state lawmakers to a conclave in...
08:15
Former Indian Ambassador to the US Naresh Chandra died at a hospital in Goa late Sunday. He was 82.He passed away around 10 pm due to multiple organ failure at Manipal Hospitals in Goa, a hospital official said.His office confirmed that Chandra was admitted to the hospital on Friday. Chandra...
07:54
Seventy firefighters and ten fire engines are tackling a huge blaze at London's famous Camden Lock Market.London Fire Brigade were called just before midnight after concerned onlookers noticed the iconic indoor site go up in flames. The huge fire has torn through the first and second floor...